The cover page is adapted from Portrait of a Man, a painting completed in 1635 by Frans Hals. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Halswww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The First Sir Percy
Chapitres (17)
- I: A Night on the Veluwe 0:00
- II: The Double Wedding 1:00:13
- III: The Great Interruption 2:05:12
- IV: Adder’s Fork 2:57:13
- V: A Race for Life 3:21:09
- VI: A Nest of Scorpions 3:33:18
- VII: A Subtle Traitor 4:21:44
- VIII: Devil’s-Writ 4:43:45
- IX: Mala Fides 5:19:17
- X: A Prince of Darkness 6:00:47
- XI: The Danger-Spoke 6:48:55
- XII: Tears, Sighs, Hearts 7:17:48
- XIII: The Stygian Creek 7:40:08
- XIV: Treachery 8:02:49
- XV: The Molen on the Veluwe 9:15:26
- XVI: The Final Issue 10:01:55
- XVII: The Only World 10:17:03
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Set a mere three months after The Laughing Cavalier, the titular first Sir Percy is set to wed his love Gilda in a double wedding with her brother and his intended. The attendees include many of the rich and famous, including the Stadtholder himself. But immediately after the ceremony, bad news arrives, and Percy, A.K.A. Diogenes, is tasked with rushing to get messages to two of the Stadtholder’s divisions that are in peril from the enemy. But there are unknown enemies about as well as known ones, and Diogenes will soon face the darkest hours and direst threats of his young life.
In the seventh published novel in the series, Baroness Orczy returns again to early seventeenth-century Netherlands, but with a darker tone than The Laughing Cavalier. This time she turns her focus to the antagonist and his henchmen, and once again puts her hero in an untenable position. This time the nation’s life is at stake, as well as his own.